Rev. Donald Van Dyken
Rev. Van Dyken has been in the ministry since 1981.  He has been involved in the homeschooling of his ten children since 1982. He has always been active in the teaching ministry of the church, is the author of Rediscovering Catechism, the Art of Equipping Covenant Children, and of teacher’s manuals on catechism teaching.  He has been the Administrator/Principal and Logic teacher at Coram Deo for the past three years.

Karen Nyman
Mrs. Nyman, who has worked in the field of education for the past eleven years, earned her B.A. in Elementary Education with an emphasis in English from Northwest Nazarene University and a Masters in Literacy through Washington State University. Her varied teaching experiences include Washington public schools, a Korean English language institute, and a private Christian school in a Muslim country. Her hope is to instill in her students a love of learning and a desire to understand the world through a Christ-centered education.

Mary Leenheer
Mary studied Chemistry and Oceanography at the University of Michigan receiving a MS in Chemistry and a PhD in Oceanic Science.  She has homeschooled all of her five daughters. She has taught chemistry and physics at CBC.  She has also taught novel writing, chemistry, physics, and biology labs, Shakespeare plays, high school Histories of the World, and musicals to homeschool students.  She enjoys helping students discover and learn about God’s creation.

Diane Pfaff
Mrs. Pfaff has a love of learning and delights in helping others discover the joys of mathematics and Latin.  She earned a BS in Microbiology from the University of Michigan in 1980 and studied education at Simpson University in California, doing her student teaching in secondary mathematics.  She studied Spanish in high school, took classes in French and Swedish at the University of Michigan, and has been teaching herself Latin over the past few years.  She has tutored CBC students in mathematics and has taught Algebra, Geometry and Latin at Coram Deo, as well as teaching Latin and history classes in her home.  She has four children, all of whom she has homeschooled.

 Bethany Vance
Mrs. Vance recently graduated with her BA in Linguistics from Seattle Pacific University in June 2010.  In 7th grade, she began her Spanish studies and continues to find it to be a fascinating language.  She also studied Russian and Biblical Greek in college.  In the summer of 2009, Bethany took a trip to Guatemala where she had a chance to speak Spanish as well as learn bits of an indigenous language, K’anjob’al.  Recently married, she hopes to learn many other languages in the future with her husband, Ronnie.  Bethany has had experience teaching in several different areas, from piano lessons to swimming lessons.  In college, she also took several classes on teaching foreign languages.  She has learned a lot from her first year of teaching Spanish at Coram Deo and is excited to teach again next year